Question

What is nutrient cycling ? Outline salient features of carbon cycling in an ecosystem.
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Answer 1

Answer:

A nutrition cycle is the movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of matter. Energy flow is a unidirectional and noncyclic pathways ,wheres the movement of mineral nutrients is cyclic.

Outline salient features of carbon cycling in an ecosystem.

(1.) Carbon cycling occurs through atmosphere, ocean and through the living and dead organisms.

(2.) Most of the carbon is fixed by plants during the process of photosynthesis and returns to the atmosphere in the form of CO2 during respiration.